220 Sir Joun D’Oyxy’s Sketch of the 
furnish water and firewood for his kitchen and bathing house, and carry his 
kitchen furniture on journeys. 
Gabbala and Parrapi have no mullettu. They furnish monthly 500 lumps 
of white jyaggery to the Uda Gabadawe, and the like to the Desave, and 
sometimes extra supplies, if he requires it, on other occasions. ‘Two inha- 
bitants, one from each village, are on constant duty at the Desave’s house, 
and serve in his kitchen. 
Gantune has no mullettu. It furnishes annually to the A/aha Gabadawe 
390 lumps of jaggery ; to the Desave, such occasional quantities as he 
requires, and its inhabitants carry the Desave’s baggage on journeys. 
Etnawala contains no mullettu. It is the peculiar employment of its in- 
habitants to carry the Desave’s palanquin. Two or three are constantly on 
duty at his house, and carry his ¢ta/apdét and torches, &c., when he goes 
abroad ; when the Desave travels a greater number are summoned from the 
’ village to carry his palanquin. 
Dunugama and Godigonuwe formerly furnished an indefinite quantity of 
saltpetre to the Desave, to make gunpowder for firing salutes and for war, 
and the inhabitants carry the Desave’s baggage on journeys. The former 
duty has been abandoned during the last few years, and they have performed 
in lieu of it any ordinary work required of them. 
Aramyke contains a mullettu of three pelah, which is cultivated by the 
inhabitants on account of the Desave. Some of them furnish white j7¢gery 
and syrup for his use; others carry his box of dressed provisions on a 
journey 
Ampe contains an ande mullettu of two pelahs, cultivated on account of 
the Desave; its inhabitants erect a kitchen near the Desave’s rest house in 
the desavony, and perform other occasional services. 
The Desave can in general command the occasional labour of the inha- 
bitants of these villages for garden, field, or common domestic work. 
The villages specified beneath are temple villages, not including, of 
course, many temple lands of inconsiderable extent which are situated in 
different villages throughout the desavony. Many of them contain mullettu 
fields, of which the produce is applied to offerings, and to the maintenance 
of the priest and officiating servants. The service of the inhabitants for 
the lands which they possess consist in the cultivation of the mullettu 
field, the performance of fixed duties at the temples, or keeping them in 
repair. 
